is hardware cloth safe?

[bj taylor]

i have my coop built inside my hoop house. i want to leave the upper half of the hoop house doors open at night for ventilation. it's getting hot here.
the coop is completely wrapped in hardware cloth. is it safe for my birds?

 

[speckledhen]

Hardware cloth is only as good as how well it's attached. If you stapled it with light staples or ziptied it, it's probably not safe. If you hammered in the heavy staples, maybe... it depends. You'd have to show us the coop so we could look for weak points.

 

[zookeeptd]

What is the best way to attatch it?

 

[ll]

our hardware cloth is attached every 6 inches with screws and 1-1/2 washers.

... and we attached it every 4 inches in potential problem areas.

 

[speckledhen]

our hardware cloth is attached every 6 inches with screws and 1-1/2 washers.

... and we attached it every 4 inches in potential problem areas.

That's another great way, too, and we've done that as well. We've even nailed it to studs and put the plywood over it around windows. Hardware cloth is awesome, but it must be attached properly to work the way it is supposed to.

 

[chfite]

I attached mine with poultry staples on the inside, so that it would be necessary to pull it out from the outside. I believe that it would be more difficult to do it that way than to pull of off from the outside.

Chris

 

[NovaAman]

Mine is stapled in first, then the second board/trim is added over top, and screwed in between them, with screws every few inches.

 

[Red Barn Farms]

Our run is made strictly from 4 x 4 posts and 1 x 6" wood boards. We added the hardware cloth securing it to the 1 x 6" boards with 1/2" staples then over the hardware cloth we used 1 x 2 wood boards (as trim) which is attached with 3" nails. The hardware cloth also sits 10" in the ground around the run area. All this is against the outside of the run. So far, it seems like Fort Knox!